AMD end driver support for everything up to and including the Fury X

[Aretak]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ends-driver-support-for-radeon-200-300-and-fury-series

Disgraceful from AMD. GPUs from mid-2015 are now left without driver support. Nvidia have only just ended regular driver updates for Kepler, with less frequent releases promised for another couple of years. AMD are completely dropping cards sold as competitors to Maxwell. This comes on the eve of a new release of Windows as well, meaning there will be no Windows 11 drivers for anything older than Polaris.

"FineWine" right, guys?

 

[Aretak]

Might as well post this here also then.

NVIDIA Officially Retiring Driver Support For Its Kepler GPUs on 31st August, Farewell GeForce 600/700 & First Titan Series Graphics Cards

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wccfte...00-700-first-titan-series-graphics-cards/amp/

Nice attempt at damage control, but you've failed to read properly. Nvidia are only ending 'Game Ready' driver support for Kepler, which is from 2012. They've also promised ongoing bug fix updates for it, meaning it isn't even actually dropped. Maybe read more than the headline. It's hardly the same as AMD ending all driver support for cards from mid-2015.

 

[Aretak]

Is there issues playing games on said cards?

Yes, once Windows 11 comes out you won't be able to play any games at all, since there will be no drivers for that OS for these cards. The fact that people are defending this is baffling. Even the AMD subreddit is calling it out for being a ****ty move.

Why do you keep saying from mid 2015. It’s until mid 2015. Fury X is the youngest card involved and that was a 2015 release

Yes? What's your point, caller? Is the Fury X not from 2015 then? Is it not a 2015 card being dropped? I wouldn't have a problem with them dropping GCN 1.0, given its age, but tossing GCN 2.0 and 3.0 in with it is just opportunism. They're not even cards with the same feature set, with the latter architectures being much more modern and still supporting the latest DX12 games.

 

[Aretak]

From mid 2015 makes it sound like cards released after 2015 are being retired. It’s cards up to mid 2015 that are being retired.

it’s simple English.

Simple English is what you seem incapable of grasping. "Cards from mid-2015" is very clearly referring to... cards from mid-2015. As in cards that were released in mid-2015. I can't imagine the mental gymnastics it would take to read that as meaning cards released after that point.

Wrong current drivers work on the leak version of Windows 11.
Windows 11 is based on Windows 10 its just a redesign with some under the hood.

That's completely meaningless. They work on an early, leaked version of Windows 11 that's essentially just Windows 10. That implies absolutely nothing about support for the final version. Most of the underlying OS hasn't even been updated to call it Windows 11 yet. There are still references to Windows 10 everywhere under the hood, which is what driver installers and such will be seeing, rather than the new logo hastily slapped on the UI. Every version of Windows is essentially just a redesign of the previous version with some under the hood changes, yet driver support doesn't carry forwards. Hell, driver support sometimes hasn't even carried forward between different versions of Windows 10. A sound card that I have works on older versions of Windows 10, but not the latest couple as Creative dropped support for it in the interim, and the drivers for old versions of Windows 10 don't work on the latest version.

 

[Aretak]

Listen its Windows 10 with redesign and under the hood changes. It is not a full new windows version.

Even windows 10 license keys work

That's a somewhat bizarre argument. Windows 7 was essentially Vista SP3 with a new UI and name to disguise the stink of failure, so was that not a "full new Windows version" either? Not to mention that 8 and 10 are pretty much just evolutions of 7 with new UIs and "under the hood changes" too. By that logic, the last actual "full" new consumer edition of Windows was XP, since it marked the switchover from the DOS-based versions to the NT kernel on the desktop. Assuming we're not counting Windows 2000, which wasn't technically designed for desktop users, even though many (including me) ended up using it because ME was terrible. Of course, this is rather irrelevant in terms of driver support, as trying to install drivers from even 7 or 8 on Windows 10 generally results in failure, even if they are basically the same OS with a fresh coat of paint. Windows 11 doesn't look to be changing anything in terms of what Microsoft do to create a "new" version of Windows. Perhaps you're only just noticing it now because there's far better in-depth coverage of the "under the hood" parts of a new Windows version now than there was in the mid-2000s.

As for license keys, Microsoft don't care about selling Windows to consumers any more. Sure, they'll do it if you really want, but Windows 10 can straight up be activated with a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 key too - no previous Windows installation required. That functionality was added in the November 2015 update. All they want is people using the latest version so that they can harvest their data. Hell, even not activating Windows 10 at all doesn't actually stop you from using it. The countdowns to when Windows would stop working if you didn't activate are long gone. Now all it limits you from doing is customising your desktop.

This is pretty standard stuff. I have a RTX470 in my 3rd PC and the driver version only goes up with 395 or something like that.

Nvidia fully dropped support for Fermi in 2019. That's nine years after the GTX 470 came out. Still a damn sight better than the six years that the Fury cards have gotten.